Neritopsoidea
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Neritopsoidea is a taxonomic grouping, a superfamily
Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...

 of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha
Cycloneritimorpha
Cycloneritimorpha is a clade of land snails, freshwater snails, and sea snails. These are gastropod molluscs within the larger clade Neritimorpha...

 within clade Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a taxonomic grouping, an unranked clade of snails, gastropod mollusks. This grouping includes land snails, sea snails, some deepwater limpets, and also freshwater snails...

 (according to Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) or in the order Neritoina within superorder Cycloneritimorpha
Cycloneritimorpha
Cycloneritimorpha is a clade of land snails, freshwater snails, and sea snails. These are gastropod molluscs within the larger clade Neritimorpha...

 within subclass Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a taxonomic grouping, an unranked clade of snails, gastropod mollusks. This grouping includes land snails, sea snails, some deepwater limpets, and also freshwater snails...

 (according to Bandel, 2007).

1997 taxonomy

Neritopsoidea was in order Neritoida
Neritoida
Neritoida was a taxonomic order of sea snails, freshwater snails and land snails, gastropod molluscs. This order was placed within the superorder Neritopsina within the order Orthogastropoda. Now see Neritoidea.-Superfamilies:...

, the superorder Neritopsina and the subclass Orthogastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Orthogastropoda was a major taxonomic groupings of snails and slugs, an extremely large subclass within the huge class Gastropoda according to the older taxonomy of the Gastropoda ....

 according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg, 1997
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda, as revised by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997, is an older taxonomy of the class Gastropoda, the class of molluscs consisting of all snails and slugs...

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2005 taxonomy

This family consists of six following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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  • family Neritopsidae
    Neritopsidae
    Neritopsidae is a family of small sea snails and freshwater snails in the clade Cycloneritimorpha ....

  • † family Cortinellidae
    Cortinellidae
    Cortinellidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails....

  • † family Delphinulopsidae
    Delphinulopsidae
    Delphinulopsidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine, gastropod mollusks.- Taxonomy :According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Delphinulopsidae has no subfamilies.- 2007 taxonomy :...

  • † family Plagiothyridae
    Plagiothyridae
    Plagiothyridae is an extinct family of sea snails....

  • † family Pseudorthonychiidae
    Pseudorthonychiidae
    Pseudorthonychiidae is an extinct, monogeneric family of gastropods in the clade Cycloneritimorpha ....

  • family Titiscaniidae

2007 taxonomy

Bandel (2007) have described four new families in Neritopsoidea:

superfamily Neritopsoidea
  • family Neritopsidae
    Neritopsidae
    Neritopsidae is a family of small sea snails and freshwater snails in the clade Cycloneritimorpha ....

  • † Fedaiellidae Bandel, 2007
  • † family Delphinulopsidae
    Delphinulopsidae
    Delphinulopsidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine, gastropod mollusks.- Taxonomy :According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Delphinulopsidae has no subfamilies.- 2007 taxonomy :...

  • † family Cortinellidae
    Cortinellidae
    Cortinellidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails....

  • † Palaeonaricidae Bandel, 2007
  • † Naticopsidae - Bandel (2007) recognizes Natisopsinae (in Neritopsidae by Bouchet & Rocroid 2005) at family level.
  • † Tricolnaticopsidae Bandel, 2007
  • † Scalaneritinidae Bandel, 2007
  • † family Plagiothyridae
    Plagiothyridae
    Plagiothyridae is an extinct family of sea snails....

  • † family Pseudorthonychiidae
    Pseudorthonychiidae
    Pseudorthonychiidae is an extinct, monogeneric family of gastropods in the clade Cycloneritimorpha ....

  • family Titiscaniidae
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